"let it go / let it happen like it happened once before / it's a wicked wind ... "

[larryhammer]

... and it chills me to the bone / if you do not believe me / come and gaze upon the shadow at your door

It is sobering and mildly depressing to realize that my enjoyment of Tintin is hampered by the fact that I don't actually like Captain Haddock.

My favorite growing up was The Crab with the Golden Claws (which holds up moderately well, all things considered). What is (or was) yours?

---L.

Comments

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite when I was kid was "The Mysterious Island", mostly because it was the first one I'd read. These days it would be Destination Moon/Explorers on the Moon, which I love for despite the atomic spaceship with the Purina paint job and outdated selenology.

[larryhammer]

It's not so much the Purina paint-job as the lack of staged rockets that bugs me about the ship. But yeah, that's a good story.

---L.

[(Anonymous)]

When I was growing up, I was more about Asterix than Tintin. (I also liked Iznogoud, but had little time for Lucky Luke.) I still don't have much love for Tintin, to be honest, although I have come to appreciate the art a lot more.

So assuming that we can expand this into a general French comics thread, I'm just going to declare "Asterix the Legionary" the best of that series. --Matt

[larryhammer]

And I only read a couple Asterix growing up, and that's been a while. I'm pretty sure Asterix the Legionary wasn't one of them, going by Wikipedia's potted summary. (But then, the only one I recognize is Cleopatra, and I'm pretty sure I read at least two.)

---L.

[sovay]

It is sobering and mildly depressing to realize that my enjoyment of Tintin is hampered by the fact that I don't actually like Captain Haddock.

I liked him best when I read Tintin, but I haven't read any of the books since elementary school with the exception of Tintin in Tibet (1960), which I remember as my favorite and which holds up really well.

[larryhammer]

I have that, but didn't reread it in my recent binge. I should.

---L.

[larryhammer]

Ah, you're right -- Tibet does hold up quite well.

---L.

[sovay]

Tibet does hold up quite well.

Yay!